Scientists struggle with the physics of fluids. A recent Google breakthrough could support better predictions and practical ...

Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...

A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning.

Among the satellite meetings of the IUPAP StatPhys29 conference was a meeting in Lviv, Ukraine — currently at war. Three of the organizers describe how the meeting came to be and the challenges they ...

“Boston Blue” opens on an unassuming evening in the New England city. Two 20-something guys, Sean and his best friend Jonah Silver (Marcus Scribner), are out on the town. As the pair chat up a couple ...

We study the pass-through of corporate taxes into consumer prices, leveraging 1,058 municipal tax rate changes affecting 4,754 German firms. A 1 p.p. increase in a producer’s tax rate raises retail ...

Taking flight: a parasitic roundworm prepares to jump on its host. (Courtesy: Victor M Ortega-Jimenez) Researchers in the US have discovered that a tiny jumping worm uses static electricity to ...

Earlier this year I met the Massachusetts-based steampunk artist Bruce Rosenbaum at the Global Physics Summit of the American Physical Society. He was exhibiting a beautiful sculpture of a “quantum ...

Researchers have long debated how the Indigenous people of Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, moved their huge human-faced moai statues — which can weigh dozens of tons, on average — centuries ago ...